What do you consider your best load of all time?

[PapaG]

I have two. One was for cast bullet postal matches: lake city '06 brass sized, trimmed and neck reamed. Lyman 311291 cast of linotype, heat treated, sized to .308 with a Hornady gas check. IMR4198, 24.0 grains, with a tuft of kapok on the powder. Bullets weighed to within plus/minus .1 grain, powder same. 1/2" to 3/4" at 100 yards out of my stock 1952 M70 sporter. It won't shoot matchkings near as well.
two, lake city brass, sized and trimmed, 25.0 Varget, Sierra 55 grain softpoint, Win. primer. .223. Best group to date is 5/8" from a box stock Bushmaster AR. Nothing else I have will do as well. Had a No 1 222 that was close.

 

[Lj1941]

7 mm08

My best all time load was the 1st load I ever loaded for the 7 MM08. It was 46 grains of W 760 behind a 145 Speer BT. I didn't have a scope on my Rem 788 only iron sights and I shot an honest <1" group at 100 yards.I was not able to duplicate that until I installed a scope.I would call it a lucky shot but I was 30+ years younger than I am now.

 

[jmorris]

3.1 g of vvn310 with Berrys 147 @ 1.160. No better minor 9mm load has bee shot, by me.

 

[Hondo 60]

I use 3.7 gr of Tite Group under a 125 gr plated hollow point
(from the hunting shack)

(Oops, forgot to say what caliber - .38 Special)

I consider this my best load because it's sooo accurate.
I own a few handguns and the only one that comes close is a Uberti 1873 Cattleman MN Brass in 45 Colt.

 

[James2]

Back in the day when there were lots of jack rabbits, chucks, and other little critters to hunt I fired many rounds with my 222 Rem. 55 gr bullet over 28.5 gr 3031 was likely the load I had the most fun with....... does that make it my best load?

 

[Boxhead]

The 225 gr Accubond from my lightweight 338-06, a M700 Cliff LaBounty rebore from 1995 I bedded in a McM KS take-off stock and pushed by VV-N550. That is a dime.

 

[MtnCreek]

Boxhead, That's a heck of a setup. Light, simple, clean; I like it!

 

[mdi]

My all time best load was put together in 1969 with a Lee Loader. 158 gr. generic LSWC, about 3.5 -4.0 grains of Bullseye. I almost peeed my britches I was so excited/happy they all went bang and hit pretty close to where I was pointing my gun. That started it all...

 

[Xelera]

My .308 FN PBR:

155 gr Lapua Scenar
41.6 gr Vihtavuori N140 powder
Federal 210M Match Primers
2.800 COL (Federal brass trimmed to 2.006)

The following is a 5 shot group at 100 yards:

 

[gonefishin1]

My best load so far is 25.2 grains of exterminator under sierra 55 grain hpbt lake city brass and cci mag. Primers. 5 shot groups sub 1/2 inch at 100 yards. And yea that's a little on the warm side

 

[CharlieDeltaJuliet]

My best load is actually a copy of the Mk248 Mod 1. 220 SMK with 77.8gr of H1000 pushing it. It is a nail driving beast of a round through my 300WM, but is on the verge of overpressure.

 

[jwrowland77]

My best two loads I have in my limited reloading experience to date is:

9mm
Win AutoComp 4.8
115 gr FMJ RN
CCI 500
This load gave me super accuracy at the range, plan on using it for Steel Challenge. Out of 8 rounds, which is mag capacity, it had 7 completely in the X ring, and the 8th was only about a 1/2" above in the 10 ring and this was at 25 feet out of a Walther PPS.

7mm Rem Mag

IMR4350 57gr
CCI LRP Mag
Hornady 139 gr Interlock

This load gave me .552" spread at 100yds. I use this load for deer hunting. Currently right now I'm .03 off the lands but plan on tweaking it a but closer to see if I can tighten up my spread. At .552" right now though, I'm pretty happy with it.

 

[Iloadntie]

My .223 CZ 527 Loves 25 gr. Varget under a 40 gr. Nosler Ballistic Tip. Shoots better than I can hold it. My best is a 3 shot cloverleaf at 100 yds.

 

[texashunter]

66 gr reloader 22, 140 gr tsx, remington brass, federal 215m in 7mm remington magnum.

 

[Peter M. Eick]

Note this is over some book maximums but still in the range of others current manuals.

15.5 grns of 2400 with a 158 grn Lasercast, CCI550 primer, Starline brass.

This is 50 shots, 15 yrds with my 1939 Registered Magnum. In this gun, this load is killer accurate! These targets were shot single action.



Same load, 50 shots, 15 yrds double action. Again, darn accurate load.

 

[all357mag]

45acp, 230gr lead RN over 4.0grs Bullseye! Any of my 38spl loads also!

 

[Mule]

30-06 165gr Sierra SPBT 55.0 Accurate 4350

 

[49willys]

I don`t have a picture,but my best group is .30" out of my Savage 111 in 338wm.The load is 72 grs of IMR4831 and a 250 gr Nosler partition.

 

[TwoEyedJack]

I would say that my best effort was getting a Ruger #1V in .223 to shoot. After trying dozens of combinations of bullets and powder without much success, I got a Lee Collet die. Now this gun is an honest sub-MOA shooter. The recipe is Winchester brass, CCI BR4 primers, 50 gr. Hornady VMAX, and 26.5 gr. H335, neck sized on the Lee Collet die, and seated 30 thousandths off the lands. I also bedded the fore end hanger for a free floating barrel. This combination has accounted for thousands of ground squirrels.

 

[plodder]

What do you consider your best load of all time?

Still looking for it, and you will be the first to see the photos when I find it!

 

[Stevie-Ray]

My best load was probably my favorite load. An IPSC practice load, it was 4.9 gr Bullseye under a 185 gr LSWC, .45 ACP.

Shot literally thousands of those.

 

[dubbleA]

In my many years of shooting I probably have hundreds of great shooting loads. This was one of my more memorable shooting sessions. Was doing some load testing before a bear hunt and pulled this off. Let me say upfront that the 416 Rigby is a handful while shooting from the bench. The average of these groups was just over a half inch. More that 45,000 lbs of engery dumped into that paper target.